Both House seats above are currently in GOP hands. David Brat faces a tough challenge for re-election . In Floriduh, the incumbent is retiring and Donna Shalala is the Dem candidate. She'd once been expected to win in a cakewalk, but the race is now neck and neck. If the Dems don't win both of these seats, a blue wave will not be happening. If they lose both, it's likely a signal of what we saw in 2016 and the GOP will likely hold the House.

Senate: In Floriduh, Scott and Nelson have been essentially tied for a long time. If Scott wins, DiSantos likely also wins his bid for the Statehouse and the rout will be on!

In MD NJ, while Menendez is the likely winner, if he doesn't win by more than 5-6 points, the Dems' hopes for a sweeping victory across the country are OVER.

Later on, I'll be paying close attention to the Senate races in IN, TN, TX, MO, MT, ND, MI, AZ and NV. A new poll today shows Debbie Donuts has a lead of just three points!

I just drove backroads from Fredericksburg to Scottsville this weekend on a Deer hunt, and saw a butt load of Abigail Spanburger signs, as compared to very few David Brat signs. This is in the middle of Virginia "flyover" country. Mostly Farms.

Connor, take heart. You can call my state state Nevaduh if Heller loses and Vegas Chooses Sisolak as the Dem Governor. Our once proud and red state has been overwhelmed with the liberal filth immigrating from Kalifornia.

No doubt FL is full of good people. But it's hard to forget that a few years back, we waited a month to find out who won the POTUS election because thousands of people there were too dumb to figure out how to make a hole in a piece of paper, ;^)

Yes, Florida is a great state with many great people. But it has been infiltrated by liberals. A socialist America hating joker like Gillum should not be able to be elected for any public office in any state. He is nothing more than a puppet of the big socialist machine financed by the likes of Steyer and Soros. And he is running this close to a hero like DeSantis? The number of ignorant idiots and blind dumb sheep are indeed obviously growing in Florida. Very sad.

Some of the ones I was really worried about are doing well in Florida. Scott has won by 1% in his previous races and it looks like he is true to form. The votes that aren't in yet I think are from the panhandle. That is pretty red. I'm not sure but I think it is the panhandle they don't have counted yet.

So frustrating that the Republican house leadership has fallen and now all forward momentum towards US further strength and success is going to come to a road blocking, foolish house investigating halt

Most of the D's gains in the house are moderates and it looks like they'll end up somewhere around 123 seats, not a real strong majority. Trump has put the question of citizenship in the next census count. This will give us an accurate count for representation and redistricting. As it stands now a mathematical formula is used designed by LWL's who think all illegals deserve representation. This will take away solid blue house seats and put them with in reach of the red zone.

I sure hope the R's are talking to some of the moderate D's into changing parties.

I had predicted as many did that the elephant would gain 2-5 seats in the Senate and hold the House. I knew I was being overly positive about the House. If I could have just one as we have, I wouldn’t change a thing. I’ll take the Senate over the House. When I say “we”, I mean conservatives, not Republicans. Parasite Obama lost over 60 seats at his like midterm and Slick Willy nearly the same. There was no blue wave, and in 2 years the Republicans will take back the House and usher in President Trump’s 2nd term. Now we get to listen to the bat crap crazy leftists forget about America and go on the Trump attack. As Senator Graham said, it will implode on them. President Trump is a great deal maker and leader, he will handle these America hating leftists while working with the Senate to further the work for we the people.

"I sure hope the R's are talking to some of the moderate D's into changing parties."

I was thinking a similar thing. If the extremist, left-wing Dems in leadership positions go off the reservation....I would not be surprised to see a moderate Dem or two flip to Repub.

For YFP.....a divided Congress usually means gridlock and nothing gets done. Once the folks see that, especially after seeing alot accomplished the last two years, they will start to 2nd guess the wisdom of voting for a Dem House. 2020 isn't that far off. If Trump can still get some things done I think he stands a decent chance of getting re-elected. That might bode well for the down ballot Repubs. The extremist Dems in the House better play their hand smartly.

^^^ Yes, my glass is half full view makes me think the dems winning back the house will increase Trump's chance's for re-election in 2020. Especially if the dems take the route of litigating vs legislating.

I could never live in a state with that many lousy dems... thank God we here are still a strong conservative state.. we did our part ... PA. was a huge screwed up... the dem. courts gerrymandered that state so dems now have strongholds, look at all the seats flipped because of the bullcrap they did there ....

Biggest loser... the Wall. I don't see anyway the wall happens now. And deficit will get even worse because the onky way both parties will agree is if they BOTH get all the spending they want.

Biggest winner might be GOP in 2020. I don't like how close some of these races were, but the way Senate dems behaved during Kavanaugh hearings cost them seats... and I expect the House dems will really behave like maniacs and hurt economic progress for the next two years helping the next GOP president.

Tester has been called the winner in MT and that looks correct. Where the votes have yet to be counted are heavily pro-Tester areas.

OTOH, the same thing applies in AZ where McSally leads by 13,900 votes with less than 1% of the vote still out. There just aren't enough votes left for Sinema to catch up, esp. as those yet-to-be counted votes appear to be fairly evenly divided between McSally areas and Sinema areas.

Net result is the GOP gains three Senate seats. That's very important going into the 2020 election where the GOP has to defend 22 seats but the Dems only need to defend 11 seats.

Also good is that even though the wins in AZ and TN are GOP holds, the two new Senators are far more conservative than the Senators they are replacing.

I asked the Sec State in AZ why the Senate numbers aren't being updated.

Here's the response I received:

"The counties are currently working to verify the signatures on each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots before they can be tabulated. Once they are signature verified, the County Recorders then check to make sure that a voter didn’t mail in a ballot AND vote in person at a polling place.

This obviously takes a little bit of time and is done to ensure that voters can trust the outcome of their elections."

I'm glad they are going thru all that effort to be correct ... Heck, my county still hasnt tabulated the votes due to a huge snaffu ...they wont be counted and verified till Thurs day..... it dont matter for the House or Senate, but the local candidates are the ones hurting right now ..

There were three possible outcomes.... GOP/Conservative control, split gridlock, or Democratic/Socialist control. Gridlock is somewhat of a victory compared to the predicted Blue Wave losing both Senate and House.

If you think gridlock is somehow better than the solid Conservative gains we have experienced in the past two years, there is something seriously wrong with your way of thinking.

I agree, Adam.... And I know you aren't really sayin' our House was a good helper, who were overflowing with great ideas to help make America great. Cuz they were fricken anemic thru the entire Trump term, to date.

"The big story coming out of Tuesday’s midterm elections is how totally the news media missed the issue of what waves were building.

There was no red wave. If there had been, Republicans would have kept majority control of the U.S. House and had even more pickups in the Senate.

There was no blue wave. If there had been, Democrats would have gained control of the Senate.

There was an underreported green wave, which attempted to drown Republicans in left-wing money.

And there was the usual anti-Republican liberal media wave, which tried to prop up Democrats.

This was a fascinatingly complex election in which unique Republican personalities won re-election as governors in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maryland – three clearly blue states and one purple state in the Northeast.

The biggest change in this election was the sheer volume of money generated by left-wing billionaires and activist groups who hate President Trump.

In congressional race after congressional race, Republicans suddenly found millions of dollars poured in against them on a scale that resembled Senate races in the past.

House Republicans had hurt themselves by allowing the number of House incumbent retirees to become larger than any time since 1930, when the Brookings Institution started tracking congressional retirements. Breaking an 88-year record for retirees is a tough way to start an off-year election for the incumbent president’s party.

Despite this institutional disadvantage, President Trump’s House losses were far less than either the 54 seats President Clinton lost in 1994 or the 63 seats President Obama lost in 2010.

Measured against the Clinton and Obama standard, you would have to give President Trump an A+ for keeping Republican House losses to a minimum – and setting the stage for a Republican majority comeback in the 2020 presidential election.

In the Senate, the president, working with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., put together a great, focused campaign that has reversed historic norms and gained seats.

In fact, as I am writing this, it appears that enough Republicans will have won Senate seats that it will be far more difficult for Democrats to have a shot at winning a Senate majority in 2020 than anyone might have expected.

The best example of the green wave’s failure is Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas. He became the darling of the media – the left’s political rock star to battle Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who the media despises.

O’Rourke raised more than $70 million, a record for a U.S. Senate race – and an amount we used to associate with presidential campaigns. After all the liberal media hype, and the sheer volume of money from the green wave, O’Rourke lost.

Once again, the voters of Texas disappointed the liberal media by refusing to elect their darling.

Republicans gained Senate seats to an unprecedented degree, because President Trump personally crisscrossed the county holding massive rallies, which dwarfed the size of former President Obama’s rallies.

This was President Trump’s victory, and he and Sen. McConnell will use it well to continue getting judges and other nominees confirmed by the Senate, to block left-wing actions by the Democrats, and to set the stage for key legislative achievements the American people want (probably starting with infrastructure investments and reforms).

The president defeated both the money wave and the liberal media – and had a very successful midterm election for a first-term president."

Update on AZ senate race: yesterday McSally was up 17K on Sinema with about 500K ballots left to count. The recorders office release an updated count today at 5pm. Sinema is now up 2,100 votes with about 345K ballots left to count. I am very concerned because the majority of ballots left to count are from Maricopa County (Phx area) and I believe Sinema will win Maricopa County. Apparently what is causing the slowdown is people who received early ballots however they did not mail them in and instead dropped them off at a polling place on election day. While that is legal here, They must be checked to make sure someone did not vote twice. I'll have another update tomorrow evening. I'm glad the senate has a cushion already cause this one ain't looking good.